Los Angeles Is Spending $4.5 Billion To End Homelessness (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2019
- Harvey Franco has lived in a grey tent pitched in downtown Los Angeles for 11 years. Every morning, he wakes up at 5:30 to dismantle it and wait. Around 8:30 a.m., a group of outreach workers from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will arrive, and ask Franco and everyone on the streets in his neighborhood how they can help him. He thinks it’s a crock.
A little over two years ago, Los Angeles committed $4.5 billion toward ending homelessness - the most money voters anywhere in the country have pledged toward the problem. At the last count, there were more than 52,000 homeless people in the county.
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That time when even the homeless tell you that you are wasting taxpayer dollars...
Kyle Starkweather oof
That was great. Her salary for 1 year could buy a trailor for some one. They hired 90 something people....thats 90 home they could have built! My 2bed house only cost 75k to build. They dont need masions, just affordable housing and a hand up. They dont need shelters, they need permanent homes that they can afford
Kyle Starkweather it is a bond after all but reallocating money will take too long by the time they have the funds the issue would've exceeded the initial cost. It best to attempt something to fix as much as we can now and reallocate money in the attempt to try to find a solution. If not we'll end up like San Fran or worse Phoenix Arizona
They still pay taxes on things they buy, if they're working homeless they may still have to pay income tax
Even homeless people pay taxes. But they probably don't see many benefits
@@FirstnameLastname-hq5rd cleaning the streets they live on, once a week, is one thing they can see. Thats where the taxes are going and to useless social workers pay checks. I would go off on that lady too.... Her paycheck, and the 96 other outreach workers, is the reason why there are not enough money for permanent housing.
When you have homeless people telling you the state is wasting tax dollars, something is totally wrong.
Most homeless people in LA are from either out of state or town/city. They come here for the social programs that were initially for residents.
Glossy Gloss can you really blame them though?
Glossy Gloss what would you do in a situation like that?
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People cant afford to live in LA due to high costs of living.
-The government: Raising taxes will help.
tell me about it
Maybe it would be best to relocate. Maybe you guys would have a chance then.
Canary in the coal mine for Austin, Texas.
They are doing the same idiotic shit here.
Affordability crisis my ass, they just started allowing vagrants to camp o public land a la California
Seattle Washington is the exact same thing !!!!
Seattle, the home of Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbuck...
California, more specifically L.A., is one of the worst managed locations in the USA.
Seattle we up there with yall.
I live 1 hr north of LA. My city and the city's around me are nowhere near how it is in Los Angeles. The problem is just about everybody in the nation moves to Los Angeles thinking of Fame and Fortune, opportunity, or jobs in the movie industry. Unfortunately they only receive good weather. There's simply not enough housing. They need to stop coming to LA. They're only going to end up living in the streets with the rats. It's cheaper to live elsewhere like Texas, Arizona, Nevada or Eufaula Alabama.
Relocate them to abandoned air bases.
Eric Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles. He is a Democrat. There is a petition going around to have him removed from office because of the homeless situation.
Drunk Nancy's voters!
4.5 billion to end homeless when just last year they made it illegal to live in a car/van. really sounds like they really care for these people to have a better standard of living.
Them living in cars are hazrd for everyone else ... You would know if you founf humna shit in the side walk from them parking their cars near where you live
@@brandonzuniga1740 Why would them having a car determine that pretty sure you can shit outside without a car.
True, how more likely is someone who doesnt have where to shit...to shit on th side walk where our children walk
Los Angeles also has limited parking space, already exploited by handicapped registered vehicle and vendors hoarding locations.
I don't think there's a grand future for the homeless. City wants workers and are filling every space with apartments for working people. The homeless get enough to eat and enough stable weather conditions but they cannot afford to live in this city or to leave it. It's a living limbo that has to be tolerated by residents to a point.
With a car, a homeless person could carry a portable toilet, garbage bags and kitty litter in their car, line their portable toilet with a garbage bag, do their business in the bag, fill the bag with kitty litter and then throw the bag away into a garbage bin.
With a car the homeless person could drive to a McDonalds or something & use the toilet there.
With a bunch of cars parked in a parking spot owned by a charity with a porta-potty set up, the people could go there.
If they can't sleep in their cars, theres far less that both government officials and the homeless thsmselves can do to control where homeless people poop.
(Also most cops doing routine patrols will presumably just purposefully overlook homeless people living in cars out of pity and/or sympathy.)
Cheap/affordable housing is the key, not more shelters. Shelters don't work. A lot of people need rehabilitation to get back into society. Teach them to take care of themselves.
No we need more housing, and you do that by removing rent control and cumbersome building laws
@@dogguy8603 Do you live in Los Angeles? Are you insane?
Shelters do work. My dad worked at a shelter where he helped rehabilitate homeless people. Just building housing isn’t going to fix drug problems or give these people mentorship that they need to succeed in society, especially such an expensive place to live like LA.
Some people though can't take care of themselves and the idea of guardianship for some homeless people should be discussed. I feel like all sides of this debate need to be heard: the homeless people who need homes, the working poor but I also feel like residents are having their homes devalued and I can see why some of them don't want to take a chance due to faeces, piss on the streets etc.
Yes, for everyone because even for those who have homes or live in apartments here struggle financially as well
It's not just l.a. its California as a whole. Everywhere you go there are homeless camps. You have to travel to different cities and towns through out the state to understand how insane and serious it is.
San Diego and San Francisco have the problem as well. I used to think it was largely due because of prison realignment from 2012 but Seattle and Portland who are outside of CA are having homeless issues the last few years as well. Its more of a West Coast problem as opposed to just California, I am still unsure of the exact cause.
@Coman Rabiot that applies to the bay. Not California as a whole. Government has a lot to do with it. Its expensive to live in California all together. Including doing business. Gentrification isn't helping either.
It's a ll over the country. The Dakotas and Wyoming have the largest increase in homelessness. California and NY are always first in American trends.
@@Eidelmania I travel the country regularly. There's no place like California. Not even close.
Matt Gomez it’s the US in general
Los angles will spend 3.5 billion on salaries, pensions and benefits on city employees associated with the project, 1.0 billion on frivolous spending and misplaced funds , and 0.5 billion on actually helping the homeless . So let's be honest here...
Corruption is what it is
California = get rich so you can live poorly.
Joel Cohen shalom
A wealthy man offered his 200 acres to homeless people and the state threatened to take his land away. There needs to be an intermediae place where people can live with dignity weather they are climbing the latter or falling down. A community that grows it's own food and builds it's own houses from local resources would fit that bill.
@kingtorta Allready have , I've been there! How about yourself?
Cant have that we need tax increases so liberal democrats can steal more money from the tax payers and give it to their liberal friends
@kingtorta go to hell
How abbout you imprison the politicans keeping people from housing and feeding the homeless themselves. Life and liberty are supposed to be guarauntees and anyone against that is a treasonous oligarch. You people dont get something even that simple so you play with moronic laws getting no where. Forced public schooling has been the worst crime against the population
That's not the agenda for the elite
That money will be laundered like it always is. They'll put up a tent and a portapotty
Extreme shortage in housing is due to OVER REGULATION. It's virtually impossible to get permits to build in LA.
Where would they build? Only A.V. high desert left?
Northern and southern California are familiar with quakes, so regs are a must. Our 1989 saw it's fair of destruction and that wasn't even the big one we're bracing for.
Give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you will feed him for life.
Turn a man into Soylent Green and you'll feed his friends for weeks.
liberals be like who's buying the rod & reel
Too many fishermen, not enough fish to live on
So try it. With all the wonderful Ness that comes from it I'm sure you'd transition just well
pay the teachers
4.5 billion down the drain
@KonoSuba this Wonderful World also a waste of money for that thing too.
@KonoSuba this Wonderful World i mean yeah but everything that obama and trump spends for billions or millions of dollars are a waste of money!
@KonoSuba this Wonderful World ....and people's lives too!
@@5849_Nearl Right, I do believe that we need a wall, have you seen our border close to Mexico? It is pathetic, maybe we dont need a 60ft wall but something around 15-30 sounds pretty legit.
@KonoSuba this Wonderful World The wall would cost 70 billion dollars of tax payers money.
Move “them” to Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and let the beautiful people let them in their mansions. California, can’t beat it with a stick.
Why work your whole life for a house when you can just do crack and get one for free
“They will never fix homelessness, because there’s no money in it.” George Carlin. RIP
The salvation army makes billions of dollars opresing homeless.
I thought that said George Clinton for a sec
The whole reason they're living on the streets is because they don't have to work, everything is free. That is, there is government money available which covers basic needs, and whatever money they can come up with is spent on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
@@bobvog7123 everything is free? Where?
@@bibletwink666 The govt. has dedicated billions to the homeless problem. Why has it gotten worse? Because people will always go where the money is. If there are funds available for living on the street, then people will live on the street.
$4.5 billion divided amongst 50,000 homeless is $90,000 per homeless person.
Not Karl
Shhh don't let people know that it's just another in a long line of SCAMS by those in power to steal tax payer money and oppress the underclass.
@@gattsuberserk4534 Right? I bet the homeless will receive less than 1000 dollars each in services.
They'll build a soup kitchen for 2 billion and the rest will cover administrative costs.
In LA...What about San Francisco? Or San Diego? or the rest of California
The feds have infinity $
likely not enough to buy a house in LA cause house there is so damn expensive
People stop moving to LA if you don’t make over 100k you will not find a proper place to live! California is a big state with plenty of land, build affordable homes. California needs to make a priority for people who were born in California to receive affordable housing first
@uknow who no, hes right, in San Diego alone, housing has become a crisis due to their just not being enough land (mostly on the coastal area) where just to drive to school I see huge amounts of homeless native San Diegans just going to the beach and not having anywhere to live that is affordable, it's sad and I hope my city will try and fix our housing problems.
Lancaster is ca is not a good place to live
@Kevin F Damn...!LA more expensive to live dan NYC...Catch me in bk all day every day ...
If only people there would stand up to the political corruption in California.
$100K and you’ll still be living in a dump!
Force the landlords to open their apartment to the homeless. This is beyond absurd. First of all, you raced taxes on us in order to build these housing. Where's the money going now? Typical Democrats running the city🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
4.5 billion / 52,000 people = $86,530 per person. I hope it works!
Lmfao good shit. The numbas make more sense
Sound's like another scam, who will get the contracts ?
"Friends of the program"
Well it's bond logically interest would be involved to be honest its getting real bad I don't want to end like San Fran with bags of poop all over the floor next to used needles. This feels like no solution problem but we have to try something now allocating money alongside it going forward to increase it's chances of some significant delay in the homeless population
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The trough pig NGO's no doubt as it will keep them in business.
They should employ the homeless as a rehabilitation tactic to build the homes, and then they can live in them. Still idk just a thought
These guys should go stand around Home Depot to get picked up for work instead of standing around tents
😂 That's rich! But, I'll bet they aren't too much in the market for a job. That's just a hunch.
Karen Brown lmao your not wrong about that
LOST & ANGEL-LESS
People need permanent housing not shelters.
That's true I had a couple of friends that hat Section 8 apartments they were paying no more than $100 they end up losing it I had a friend no kids who had $17,000 about 7 years ago she has nothing another one $30,000 his dad passed away that's what he left him it's all gone it's the people's fault that they're homeless
Drug users will use drugs in their free houses.
Claudia, it's a drug addiction and mental illness problem. It has nothing to do with housing.
Claudia Marie Bermudez I agree.
1990758 they need to have gotten a good financial advisor
Thats what you get without affordable housing in big cities.
If housing to expensive then move to a cheaper city or state. Alabama has the lowest homelessness in the nation. $500 goes a very long way in the american south. Or go north. Housing in the midwest isn't expensive either.
That is not exactly how that works....
There already is....
@C caymer you cant. California is in an earthquake zone. Miracolousy no quakes in nyc metro. NYC is ridicolously expensive compared to LA
That's what you get when you're a sanctuary state and the liberal mecca of the country. They're not called "tax and spend" liberals because they're out to save the average person money lol. It's time that CA took a look in the mirror and realize that all these utopian ideals don't come cheap.
I’m all for housing the homeless, but I think that they should also have to contribute to society to ask for handouts. Even if it means picking up garbage for a couple hours a day
If they had the will to do just that, they probably wouldn't be homeless.
I’m from Chicago, I went to LA this past October for vacation and was expecting this gorgeous city like you see in tv and movies... it was so far from what I had imagined. The tents and homeless people all over the city. I couldn’t believe it. No one talks about how many homeless people live in LA. Being from Chicago I always thought we had a problem with homelessness but LA was a wake up call. They have a major problem and need help fixing it clearly
People need to understand you can’t live in Cali comfortably unless you make at least 100k a year and thought won’t get you far.
TheBic4 lol what? 100k a year won't get you far? Ok buddy California may be expensive to live in but that's just exaggerating.
I make 34k in NYC and I'm comfortable u definitely do not need 100k to survive in LA.
Nah I live here in L.A. and anything 60k and above and you can live relatively comfortably.
Is that because you have some of the largest taxes in the country, and the largest amount of regulation when it comes to private business? I mean I live in NYS and I can't wrap my head around your tax rate, and the amount of regulations. You can't even fight wildfires properly because you regulated water usage, but you don't even need to use fresh water for fighting fires, you have a huge ass ocean, but let me guess there are regulations against that too.
@@FatJoe98100 lol a fast food worker in NYC makes more money then a salaried 9-5er upstate.
Lol I used to chill out by whiteplains and sarsdale out in Southern NYS it was very clear the further north I went the shitter it got.
Talk about the regulation as much as you like, but our food safety rider safety is bar none NYC is one of the safest places in the world.
I can go out how much Better NYC is compared to NYS and the majority of the other states but at this point it would be just adding more salt to the wound.
How about education, job placement and relocation to smaller cities that are affordable and have low populations like Merriam Kansas where I live lol
A place like Merriam Kansas probally has a crappy job market.
You would need to first have Kansas agree to accept these homeless coming from California. That way the kansas politician can work with Kansas employer if they can hire them when they arrive. Otherwise if you send in 100,000 homeless people from California and Kansas only has 50,000 jobs they qualify for your left with 75,000 who are still homeless.
Kansas is a dead state nobody lives over there it's probably cheap asf there lol bigger population more money for politicians
Ndubuisi "Jkid" Okeh Merriam is a suburb of Kansas City. It's a nice place to raise a family as well. Overland Park, Kansas is another suburb of Kansas City that's among the best places to raise a family in the USA. In fact, the medium age of OP is around the mid-30s.
@Keytron Quabius The programming scene is oversatuated.
But we want to let in more people illegally from Mexico? Ya, that will solve it!!!
I don't agree with the idea of letting more people illegally from Mexico (or any other place), but I notice one thing; None of those homeless people speak Spanish.
Keep voting democrat that will fix it. 😂
So many lost souls in Los Angeles. Very few make it out of Skid Row. It is the last stop before the end.
Fk skid row and those addicts.
@C caymer alot of homeless people aren't even from California
bob saget Facts! They come from the East and South of the US to get away from Snowstorms and Floods and homeless people out here in Cali gets lots of help with food and clothes from locals and celebrities and also street artist & I’ve talked to many and they say they make $100+ a day asking for money at freeways exits so I don’t feel sad for these people I’ve helped out many time with money and food.
There have been a few radicals suggesting skid row and its occupants be eradicated.
If you moved these people into housing it would IMMEDIATELY turn into a slum. These people don't work, they don't have jobs, a HUGE amount of them are struggling with addiction. You would literally move the problem from the street into a slum building and there would be the same exact problem just in a different place.
If they're mentally incapable of managing their own affairs, they should be institutionalized. If they're otherwise cognizant but can't or won't find work, the state should imprison them and direct their labor for the public benefit.
Building more shelter's sounds like a good temporary fix but what about building more low income apartment's!?!
Low income apartments cost like 400 thousand for 1 apartment
Exactly what do you consider low income how much should the rent be
Follow the money
Problem: Homeless people → Solution: raise taxes to give them homes → Problem: cost of living goes up → Problem: more homeless people → Solution: raise taxes to give them homes → Problem: cost of living goes up → Problem: more homeless people → Solution: raise taxes to give them homes → Problem: cost of living goes up →Problem: more homeless people → Solution: raise taxes to give them homes → Problem: cost of living goes up → Problem: more homeless people → ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION: lower taxes → hahhahaaha just kidding spend another $4.5 B on more homes→ Also raise taxes
You left out the part where they build a close to a billion dollar bullet train.
HAHAHA JUST KIDDING
So you mean the liberal way is a failure
Just goes to show how stupid democrats are.
Sorry but I'd rather live in democratic LA (I'm not poor) rather than Louisville Kentucky. Republivan states dont have as many homeless but in there homes it's all meth and pills addicts beating wives and kids and perpetual poverty (not to mention lack of healthcare). Come again? Dems are bad?
Tiny houses are the way forward, wooden built, solar for power, cheap to build, composting toilets, they're mobile so can be built elsewhere and towed.
All you need is some land to put them on.
There's a growing number of these being built throughout the world, the sole problem seems to be land where they can be built, in the UK it's hard due to planning regulations etc.
I herd they tried that, but it broke zoning laws so the city demolished it.
Yup. Private charity did it and the city said whoa u can't solve problems like this!
@@jesusrios444 Geez!
@@Dan16673 simple solution to a problem and they don't like it...sounds about right!
Ideally Los Angeles should look like New York because of the population but zoning laws and activist prevent this. Often citing things such as preserving historic neighrboughoods or disturbing their views.
We don't have this problem in the Netherlands because we still have good public housing. The American Dream became the American Meme.
Here in switzerland we have practicly no homeless people. Something goes horribly wrong in the us.
The American dream is a dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
mikkert2015 California isn’t all of the US
@@divingfalcon the neatherlands and switzerland have way more immigrants than the US(about 25% in switzerland). The problems are within the us and how the country is ran internally. Blaming every thing on immigration is foolish. There are many countries with more migrants that have higher living standarts than the us. Look at switzerland, scandinavia liechtenstein germany austria and many more.
@@daedraq Switzerland is where old rich people go to die of course you don't have homeless people
How about stop handing out free shit and attracting people from every walk of life.
"The number one problem is housing inventory."
Try and build something in Los Angeles. You'll understand why. Government induced housing shortage, not enough to fill demand, sky high prices for increasingly scarce existing housing. This ain't rocket science, folks.
How are you going to spend $4.5billion when both the city and state are broke due to a large welfare state?
what? stopwatching sean hannity.
California has 60 billion in their safe.
@@rachelmcadamslover lmao funniest shit i ever heard. You mean brown had 60 million is his safe from raping californias taxes and citizens for years?
4.5 Billion and 0jobs or 0 possibilities to obtaining a secure future. Moving them from one place to another is not fixing a problem. That women is a problem, she gets paid a lot to tell them that they have problems and need help. What a waste of money.
@C caymer yes, it will. Get them a stable job somewhere around the country, it doesn't have to be in la or the California. People forget the United States is not just a couple of state. 50 state and you telling me we can't relocate people and get them jobs?
C caymer alot of the homeless In California are from other states anyway. So LA isnt their hometown. And why wouldnt a homeless person want to move, in order to get a job and a roof?
That's 4 1/2 stacks of 100,000,000 Million dollars and you can't fix this for 55,000 people? That's $1,818,000 per person off of just one stack!
How did you get those figures? Lol.. your math is way off. It's actually 4 1/2 stacks of 1,000,000,000. That's billion with a B. One stack would be equal to 1,125,000,000 divided by 55,000 would equal a little over 20,454 per person off just one stack. But in total it's a little over 81,818 per homeless individual. Either way it's a whole lot of money for a whole lot of nothing getting done.
🤣 You ain't ending nothing, but slapping a bandaid on it.
Yeah, but 5 billion is too much for a wall, o.k. there. 👎
Blakelikesfood The price is 25 billion now
We don't NEED a wall. Thanks for your 9th century suggestion.
@@sanfrancisco1231 We don't need 5th century pilgrims, thanks for your remark.
All the property taxes in LA combined aren't even 2 billion. They want to spent 4.5 billion on people who want to be homeless becoming not homeless. Lol Dumb
Which part of Kenya is this?
Mombasa.
Its america the richest coumtry in the history of the world!! We are #1!! 👍👍
The part where a single liberal shit who has enough money to fund trumps wall if they wanted but would rather spend money on useless people to try to make them less useless.
Mean while in red state land still poor dumb and empty.
So, your solution is...??
@@smhdpt12 to this I support what cali is doing and I think red rural states should follow and maybe they will be less poor
That amount of money would solve the problem but it will go "missing".
They(city/state) currently spend 760 mil ( that's not counting the donations) a year and it got worse , adding almost 3.5 billion to homeless budget will be a disaster.
Just use that 4.5B to build small cheap apartments for the homeless people and give the people homes. Homeless problem solved. If people have homes, they aren't homeless.
Give them homes? That's not a good incentive. Provide them a job and see how many of them actually take it to better their lives.
Dumbest thing I’ve read all day
@@philaufan6 Luckily I'm was not talking about building incentive structures. I was talking about the cheapest, simplest, most straight forward way to solve homelessness.
Then what? They trash the place in a matter of weeks/months and then you're back to square 1, in addition to ruining a neighborhood
Ari Takalo so why work , if they just give you a home. Why am I out working then??? This is the problem now, ppl feel too entitled. They think the govt should keep them up .
I work 2 jobs, never been in trouble, but i have trouble every month trying to pay rent. ya gonna help me or just the people on the streets?
MikeyBay you can go to a food bank any time 👍 it can help by reducing your food costs. Don’t be afraid to visit one, everyone has to go at some point.
MikeyBay start saving whatever you can! $5-$20 a check! Budget your funds every month.
Downgrade to a room, save up for emergencies or moving up. We don't know your lifestyle standards or health, and you have options if you're getting income in.
OH SHIT
@MikeyBay, quit your two jobs and become homeless, then they'll help you.
I'm currently homeless and have been for over 7 years. I'm at least lucky enough to be living in my van now that I bought because I was hit by a car that broke both my legs and I was in a wheelchair at the time and still am. There's no services for homeless people that actually get you off the street and housed, you'd think that someone like myself that is in a wheelchair would be a priority along with women with small children and other handicapped but I haven't found that yet. And I've been in and out of the hospital and gotten case workers, am currently working with P.A.T.H and I'm still homeless. Where's all that money going?
"Just give me an apartment I wanna go in" whats wrong with that?" LMAO realllllyyy
4.5 billion of wasted money that makes bureaucrats rich....
4:10 in “YOU GUYS ARE SPENDING TO MUCH TAXPAYERS MONEY ON NOTHING”....who says homeless people are crazy!?!? This man is right on point!
Some people think he is crazy but he’s actually woke.
Hong Kong is the same. People being homeless around ghetto places while rich dudes buy multiple properties.
Do the math. Problem already solved.
The $$ is now there to get a home for each homeless person, the key is how are they going to distribute the money and will the city shift some of the $$ elsewhere??
People watch the leaders to see if they pull one over you. They better be ethical
Even my third world country sudan isn't that bad people don't sleep on streets like this 😂
Pretty sure I seen a vice documentary bout that too
@@Ben-sm1tm vice is full of left-wing propaganda
@@chitoim2332 pretty sure you guys had a civil war and authors who published first hand account
Lol...big brother us cant handle it 😂😂
Wut u mean, Sudan worse. Dangerous AF, I'd rather be homeless
The bad part is most businesses don’t hire homeless people.
Thank God some do
Why would they, they're lazy and have no sense of responsibility. Most are drug addicts who will steal from business owners. Others suffer from mental illness. They've used drugs most of their lives their brains are fried. If I was a business owner- neither would I.
Hard working ppl can also end up homeless. Getting ready for work a mission on its own
@@usmc1127 go back to eating crayons. ofc you wouldn't understand how people went homeless in the first place.
Duck youre right some wont. But its all about how they carry themselves and what theyre willing to sacrifice to move up in life
First of all.
Majority of the homeless are not Angelenos , they are from out of state. They got sent there from other states , someone bought them a one way ticket to Los Angeles via greyhound.
I'm going to tell a short story. In 2016, there was a homeless veteran, that used to stand at 6th and Flower (DTLA). Tall, muscular, African-American guy. For several months, he saluted the pedestrians with a smile on his face. He had a cup for donations, but he never asked for money. He was always respectful. Some of us would talk to him and he seemed like a smart guy that fell on hard times. He had the incredible ability to maintain a positive attitude and spread positivity. I thought this man could make it, but eventually, the system broke him too.
Suddenly he disappeared for about two months. Then one day, I noticed him across the street. Mike was now thin, frail, and slouched over. He walked with a limp. He might've been on drugs. He lost his smile. I saw a man drained of hope. I didn't say hello that day, but I wish I did because that was the last time I saw him. If anyone else here is from LA and knows who I'm talking about, please let me know.
I'm not a bleeding heart for the homeless or anything. I keep my distance like many of us do. But the homeless crisis is frustrating for everyone in LA. Numerous homeless "non-profits" are setup just to make a buck. The government keeps spending billions on projects that fail or don't address the root cause of rampant homelessness. This is an acutal case where the chaos presented in mainstream journalism is a clear portrait of reality.
The city of Los Angeles has been saying this every year since 1997
How much of that money will go towards bureaucracy?
Ndubuisi "Jkid" Okeh all of it as usual for the Dems
@@joewaters9884 Democrats and Republicans play the same game.
Ndubuisi "Jkid" Okeh
Exactly right. They're both money-sucking fiends. As long as we're locked into the right/left bullshit we don't get anywhere.
Ndubuisi "Jkid" Okeh probably 90
the gov wont give the money unless it creates jobs so yes a bunch is going to go towards that
throwing money at a problem clearly doesnt always solve the problem if the money is being used wrongly
I've read that each of those housing units only holds 350 something families, while there are 20k homeless
Sanitation workers wouldn't have to come if they kept the area they are using a bit cleaner. Harvey seems to know this. Handouts aren't the way to go with this. Providing them some housing to get the process started is decent but then hold them accountable. If this isn't done the housing is going to look like the street does now.
California needs to more the way of a few more states and have anyone receiving help has to volunteer/work an agreed amount of time.
If that were how the did it most the homeless would stay homeless. I'm convinced that the majority of homeless are just lazy. I work construction and Everytime we see a homeless person we offer them a days pay and free lunch with the possibility of actually hiring them if they do well. The majority delcine this offer. Out of the 50 we've offered it two only about 10 have accepted and 5 of those 10 are now working full time and have a apartment of their own
@@ignoreme8841 There is probably many that are just lazy. I know they started the process in Maine, requiring all able bodied people, except single mothers, to work. The number of recipients dropped through people finding jobs or just refusing to be in the program.The one article I just checked again are touting ~30 million in savings.
@@iloveyouamberappel I wish all states would require anybody receiving any type of aid to either voulenteer or work. It would help alot with people that just sit around not working and receive government assistance
@@ignoreme8841 I think its not about laziness but about mental health and substance abuse issues. Just because a person looks physically able doesn't mean they are.
@@Sookie8Stackhouse yes they are sure the mental health people get a pass but you can work while high I'm not going to pretend like I know the stats but I'm guessing most of the homeless drug use consists of meth and crack both are stimulants meaning they won't put the user to sleep meaning they can still work. Not my fault they wanna lay around getting high all day.
4.5 BILLION!? Just for the homeless in ONE STATE? But we can't find funding for a fence/wall?
Max Gorden it’s worse that’s just for one city
Are you saying a wall is more important than our own citizens?
Because a wall is more important
ONE STATE is state and the other funding is federal.
Now take the left lace and cross over the right lace.....
Stop FENTANYL SMUGGLING FROM CHINA AND THE HOMELESS PROBLEM WILL DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE !!!
The homelessness issue is always painted as being an affordable housing issue. My question: how many of the homeless people in LA have either serious drug dependency or a severe mental disorder? Why is this angle never taken in these documentaries?
4:12 Wow. For a man who is homeless to recognize this is amazing. SMART DUDE. Paying for permanent housing incentivizes homelessness, only making the issue worse and more expensive. #walkaway
U.S. has serious problems
Overpopulation. No space drives the human mind insane.
The thing about Los Angeles is that even on the coldest winter nights here, it usually will not drop below 40 degrees. Usually, about 45 is the low. You can survive in Los Angeles without freezing to death.
I’m from Chicago and you My question is how long been like this like year ?
Wait, no jobs for them?
A lot of the problem is that homeless people can't get job because of a lack of housing. If you have a house and a set of clean clothes, you can get a job MUCH easier. It won't work for all of them, but 55,000 is insane. It's worth a try
@@2Infinit2 Are there even enough jobs for all these ppl. who want to live in LA?
@ construction jobs are low beacuse of the complex building code
Whatever job they could give these people, it's not going to pay enough for a place to live in LA.
@@2Infinit2 give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you will feed him for life.
Aka it will be a bad idea. They do this every year and it got worse and worse
Just sad.
Work in San Diego and live in Baja California....I did it for a few years and I wouldn't be where I am today if I didn't do it. I saved a lot of money in the first few weeks.
I grew up in Los Angeles County and have lived my whole life in Southern California. Los Angeles and California will never resolve this issue. Until California recognizes that more than half the homeless are mentally ill or drug/alcohol addicts. There will be no solution. No matter how much aid they get, the mentally ill or drug/alcohol addicts will not live in some homeless shelter. Nobody or agency wants to be the one or group who forcibly apprehends, diagnosis and treats the homeless mentally ill or drug/alcohol addicts. Cannot take away their “Freedom”, but they are allowed to set up tents anywhere, run naked screaming through the streets and sh*t on the sidewalks.
So in order to make ourselves feel better, Los Angeles is spending $4.5 billion to end homelessness. The money isn't going anywhere except to the politicians pockets and the contractors who are in bed with the politicians. Yet at the same time Los Angeles is a sanctuary city which has hundreds of illegals coming into the city every week. Does anybody ask where they are living and who is paying to support them? This is the true definition of insanity. For over the last thirty years the city Los Angeles has welcomed the homeless, the illegals and just about any other problem in society. Most of the food banks and ministries have taken care of these people until Los Angeles and California became a sanctuary city/state. Now the flood illegals coming into California along with absolute power the liberal Democrats control of California have made this situation unbearable. Homelessness, disease (like typhus which has not been seen in 100 years) and crime are on the rise. So yes, throw money at it and continue to see the same results. True insanity!
My friend lives in Sacramento he tells me how people with jobs are homeless.
It is just to expensive to live there incredible that this is America
There are 49 other states.
@@kellz1703 for real what are they
Jake Pursch
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Jake Pursch tell me if I miss something thanks
@@kellz1703 thanks for what
Instead of shelters, housing complexes should be built and the homeless should be given a permanent place to stay
It's called section 8
Aren't those basically the projects? A place of extreme crime and poverty?
Dumbest thing I've read all week.
SübZer00 you’re moving the problem to housing complexes. Do you understand what those housing complexes would turn into???
When you babysit people you end up with homeless babies.
This problem is complex than that, is not simple
I’m from Chicago and My question is how long been like this like year ?
4.5b to try and attack homeless.
Damn Cali got it like that?
Blue Jay but ate running out of water and flint Michigan still has dirty tap water but hey SPACE FORCE!
Theyre making that tax revenue with the new exhaust laws
California has the 5th largest economy in the WORLD. That's including countries. So yeah, with things like Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Cali got it like that.
@@MagiciteHeart California also has a lot of debt. Fires don't help either.
Blue Jay ..they do when 80% of that money ends up in the politicians pockets who said the state would fund 4.5 billion for homeless.. the money never makes it to the people it is intended for
My ninja was sweeping the sidewalk after the city cleaning crew already picked up all his trash. He can’t be taken serious.
My ninja lol
Harvey is the only guy in Kalifornia that has his shit together
It is not just an LA problem - as soon as they get this group of homeless into shelters and the help they need MORE will arrive and settle on the streets of LA or San Francisco. It has become a " sanctuary" for the homeless. We need to look at our entire country. However not an excuse to not help LA....lots of tax payer money WASTED - it is a sad shame and will only get worse if we as a nation dont address the entire issue - I dont think Fentanol from China is helping - look at the Japanese " homeless" a completely different story because while they are homeless they are not drug addicted. I am not saying all homeless are drug addict, but it is obvious that a large percent are - fentanol smuggling from china needs to be stopped .
i cannot understand how in the usa have so many homeless people. a country where there are lots of jobs.
Drugs drunks lazy mentally ill sums it up pretty well lol
Watch the video "How America's Opioid Epidemic decimated the American workforce".
In a nutshell.
Jobs? Jobs dont matter when they pay 12 dollars an hour and rent is 2000 plus a month.
There are no jobs in the USA.
Once they build these new "section 8" HUDD and TAX CREDIT properties the waiting list is 5-10 years. And once they are up in turn the process to get one is absolutely ridiculous. Undocumented and illegal immigrants without a social can get these apartments faster than a regular homeless American. I use to work in a low income property. People who had true medical emergencies, people with kids, people with mental illnesses who could really use the apartment more than and illegal immigrant or a druggie. If anyone is homeless and reading this do not accept a section 8 voucher. They tell you that it get you ahead of everyone else but it actually limits you to what apartments you can apply to. So just go in apply without the voucher and you can apply to as as many places as you can.
Macatol TV I agree about the section 8 part. A friend of mine workplace owns apartments and while they let everyone apply, they don’t select a section 8 tenant at the end of the day due to issues with damaged apartments in the past.
Erica Hernandez exactly! No one wants their property damaged. It costs money to fix those things and it’s not cheap at all.
I've worked in property management for over 8 years and a regular Joe shmo leaves the same mess and damage as a homeless person.
WethePeople deport them where ?? To the desert 🌵
Been in these streets going on six years. 52 and told there's no programs for me other than general assistance, and that is $15 dollars a month ebt. No medical, no shelter, no help
Man im 22 and homless in seattle im vlogging my experience and ....it sucks bro...time is flying by so fast...feels like my life is just on fast foward...i went from sleeping on the streets to sleeping in my car. Hopefully i wont be homeless by 2020
Was sad to see when I visited LA
End homelessness by getting them to advertise coke.
You mean drugs? That will only fill up the federal prison system.
@@Jkid4 The soda. It's on the thumbnail.
@@edwardmarshall2035 oh that... sorry.
@jacob The majority of them are white and black from other states. Why not white to Europe , black to Africa and Mexican/ south american back to the shithole.
What about some type of dormitory or "hotel" where all the services are available? Mental health, job training, security all in one facility.
My question is how long been like this like year ?
If LA can afford 5 billion I think the federal government can for a wall as well.
Wall doesn't fix anything 🙄
Sergio Rodriguez it’s needed, everyone knows it
@@ryanspring7649 no it's not
@@srod8818 your going to be deported anyway, you have no say.
@@srod8818 it would if i lived in Cali and i wanted to keep the homeless off my lawn
Dumping more money they don't have to fix this problem, won't fix it
Not about results. Only virtue signaling and intentions
Ive met quite a few people on skid row(LA Area) and a huge hand full of them came from out of state. I asked them why California? They told me the weather, the area because everything is walking distance and if their shit gets cleaned up its so easy to get it back, and most importantly it's becoming a lifestyle now. Alot of these people dont want to get clean or get back to work. They just want to kick it all day because thats what they have been used to for so many years. They dont know how to live with responsibility and a lot of them dont care to learn. Here in California we have General Relief which is government assistance allowance, anywhere from 100 to 400$ monthly and another 200 to 300$ in food stamps(EBT) monthly. It's more than enough to survive on the streets when theres no rent or bills to pay.
All these lies by politicians. Haven't we heard this before? Let's see how much for that 4 billion actually goes to help the problem.
I don't agree the way they are "ending homelessness", it should all be spent toward free education, career rehab, very cheap/bare minimum housing, and free healthcare. But at least it's not bailing out fat cats at the top.
Hawaii’s homeless community is growing too it’s basically worse than LA because there’s not enough land. Hawaii is right there next to LA for pricing of housing / food / traffic.
C caymer and where are you from exactly? You should really do research or be from the area before you say that lol. Look up Hawaii homeless camps and do research about what type of people actually own homes in Hawaii more and more locals are forced to move out of state due to the cost of living a 3 bedroom house in my old neighborhood cost 980k average. I had to move to Nevada due to the cost of living.
Well when you depend on shipping or flying in everything its going to be expensive boohoo
flahertyrick88 Hawaii was illegally Overthrown in 1893 and of course everything is expensive but cost of housing and a monopoly electric company doesn’t help either sometimes people speak without actually knowing anything and it makes you sound ignorant.
All Democrats
crazy to see the comparison of homelessness on the west coast vs. east coast. Obviously, climate has a lot to do with that, but I remember going to SF for the first time and was shocked.
I just got back from LA and I was amazed by home many homeless people I saw, it looked like 30% of the population was homeless.